Posted on 12/28/2011 1:46:20 PM PST by cableguymn
It's been building.. No one opens doors for anyone any more, thank yous are few and far between. But today.. I am just blown away.
I am sitting in my van, enjoying some white castle while reading FR.
I hear a loud BANG on the side of my van. Look over and out the passenger window to see a 20 something kid who looks like he is a LONG way away from the beach. We lock eyes. He had banged his door in to the side of my van.. So I wait for him to walk around to the drivers side of my van.
and wait..
I look in my rear view mirror. He's headed for the door to the restaurant.
I open my door, and ask "hey, aren't you going to at least say sorry?!?!?"
"it's just a little paint man, my car is ok!"
(WTF!!)
It's a old work van, one more door ding is not going to kill me or it. However, his statement just floored me!
And yes, his stuffed Honda Civic had a Zero bumper sticker on it. Both 08 and 12.
Your cable TV line is 'co-axial', meaning there is an outer mesh shield (ground) and a center conductor (signal). A needle will effectively short the signal out, then take a wire cutter and cut the needle flush with the outter plastic - he won't have cable/internet and until he finds or replace the cable.
Rooster Cogburn, aka John Wayne..
Forgot to mention. Passenger side, front tire. He won’t see them when he gets in his car.
I always liked Bronson.
Anyway, my uncle said "Allrighty, we'll see who the bigger A**hole is, here." and took a tire iron to the offender's car.
And, that, as they say, was that.
My wife and I discuss Tawanda many times.
I’ll join in on this just for sake of the fun of it.
Both passenger side tires. If you do one the spare will fix that. 2 flats. your screwed.
I remember doing that back in my high school days.
Then someone knocked the jerk outta me.
Super glue - so many uses for it.
Other times, you can keep a valve stem puller in you glovebox and remove the stems when the offender has left so that when he calls AAA to refill his tires, they can't do anything but offer him a towing service. Just sayin'
Before you extrapolate one person’s behavior to the entire society, just hold that person accountable for his actions. That is best done through the Police.
The second point is that there are those who get their “fix” from the increase in adrenalin that comes with sudden rage. I call those people “rage-a-holics,” but the PC term is people afflicted with “Intermittent Explosive Behavior.” National affliction estimates for IEB are about 6 %.
The Judge may order an anger management course to the chronic IEB person. “Road Rage” is another common name applied to those on our highways with a short fuse.
DOT 3 brake fluid. Murder on paint. A message on the hood (”I am the 99%!”) or maybe some expansive post-modernist self expression.
Better you than me........If he actually said that, I would have carved the entire Declaration of Independence on his car in BIG letters........but that's just me.
This is just the one that pushed me over the edge. I doubt he meant to do it. My van is nothing special, it’s not a BMW or benz.. (it is hard fuel though.. hmmm..)
I get pushed in line, cut off on the highway, hung up on by customer service (when I am nice to them!)
the action that caused our paths to cross was an accident. His response to it is what set me off.
You could write “It’s just a little paint” in the middle of his hood, using brake fluid for ink.
As the Captain Woodrow said in Lonesome Dove, “I Won’t abide bad behavior in a man.”
Looks like the only teacher that can learn the young man is karma.
Woe is the person that can’t learn from the experience of others. Making your own history is so much more painful and expensive than borrowing it at no cost from others.
Pretty much anytime I see a Zero bumper sticker on a car in a parking lot, it gets a key run down it’s side...
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You’re as much of an ass as the protaganist of this thread. Congrats.
Severe temptation to take vise-grips and choke off the exhaust. 5 minutes and misery to the a**hole recipient.
Whose line was it in an old western:
“I never killed anybody that didn’t need killin’”
I just watched last night (for about the tenth time), “The King of New York”.
Frank White: “I spent half my life in prison. I never got away with anything, and I never killed anybody that didn’t deserve it.”
Guys like him are why I carry a can opener and a can of clams.....
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